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From: rrr@u02.svl.cdc.com (Rich Ragan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: undump, unexec, or C-wrapper needed
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Date: 28 Nov 90 01:22:12 GMT
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Organization: Control Data Corporation, Silicon Valley Operations
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I have built a mail gateway into a proprietary mail system
in Perl and now I want to have it run with root privilege so
things like the "From" user supplied by the gateway are
believed by sendmail. As you may have surmised from the subject
perl won't let me do it directly. I have undump source but
it looks like it will be non-trivial to get it running under
a Mips RiscOS derived system. I got the Mips version of
unexec.c and rebuilt Perl with Tom Christiansen's UNEXEC code
activated. This dumps a file for me but executing it gives
me a "Killed" message and dbx complains that there is no start
address. The third alternative suggested by Perl is a
C-wrapper. Has anyone done one of these they could send me
or point me to? Failing that, any suggestions on how to get
further with undump or unexec.
Thanks --
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Richard R. Ragan  rrr@svl.cdc.com  (408) 496-4340 
Control Data Corporation--Silicon Valley Operations